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There's something wrong with TV actor Dingdong Dantes's crotch in his fairly scandalous Bench underwear ad near Guadalupe Bridge: It was obviously Photoshopped!
This and other anatomically incorrect things are some of the things you notice as you pass through Guadalupe Bridge to go to and from work.
The other things are less obvious but even more...wrong:
1. You don't wear undies in the beach like that, you wear trunks or beach shorts.
2. You certainly don't pose like that in your briefs while sunning in public.
3. And you certainly don't blow up such a pic in incredibly large proportion. The right place for underwear ads is inside underwear stores or undies/lingerie sections of department stores, if not on the packaging itself.
4. And how can you justify being barraged by gigantic ads like that whichever direction you looked when you're already being barraged by a thousand commercials everyday on TV? The way the ads are outsized, you'd think we have aliens from ouer space as target audience. (Does E.T. ever wear blood-red Bench briefs?)
5. What's the sense of building a steel structure that rivals the ancient ziggurats in a city where the national hero's statue is just this tall, when said structure is not a shrine to anyone or anything but to a tarpaulin ad that most likely spouts modern-day lies, or at least socially sanctioned propaganda (quick, Google and review Jib Fowles's 15 basic appeals or advertising strategies) and will most likely endanger motorists with roving eyes and commuters during tropical tornados if it's not tempting the suicidal to end it all?
I think we should reclaim that beautiful bend of Pasig River and make this place a real tourist attraction by restoring some amount of shame. Losing those tarp ads will surely mean losing lots of money, but we could earn better with a nice tourist attraction, couldn't we? Or maybe there's a place for gigantic ads, after all. But please, let it be any place that's already very ugly to begin with, not something lovely like that part of Guadalupe.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Manila's Tarp Central
Posted by R.O. at 12:27 PM
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5 comments:
And how did you know it was photoshopped? =P
preston d(?),
do you realize who's land most of those mega sized billboards are sitting on? (and hence, who makes money from the advertising?)
You'd think the R.C. Church would at least care that all that advertising is obscuring the statue of Christ? (You've got friends among the princes of the church, maybe you should let them know how you feel.)
Also, check out what Sao Paolo had the political will to do -and these were the results.
UDC
the name sounds nice to me, at the moment
yeah, im aware that the owner of the biggest tarp in the land is the guadalupe minor seminary, and i might be stepping on the toes of priests i know but i don't care really. that's not my purpose, insulting people. i believe there's something higher, higher wisdom, if you may, in telling people that there's a better place for all those giant ads
hey thats wonderful news. it can be done. thanks!
arbet: ano ka ba, try mo nga magpose ng ganun at humarap sa salamin :)
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